Benny Green Quotes
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I think that my mother, Frances Dorothy Peck, modeled her whole life on that of Scarlett O'Hara.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I don't think things have changed for me. Yes, I got a big contract, but my focus is still the same.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.'
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I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.
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When you're nursing and you're working 18-hour days, that's pretty hard.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
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The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
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I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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A lot of places I go are dangerous, like Tel Aviv or Rio, but that never stops me from going there and putting on a show. I have good security. I don't worry about that.
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Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
